I am not my status: an undocumented immigrant's perspective | Ernesto Rocha | TEDxCSULB
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- We all have at one point or another felt trapped by identities or stereotypes that are not fitting of our brilliance. Finding our personal liberation comes from learning our story and becoming aware that we can be as free as we dare to be. This is how an undocumented immigrant and a woman truck driver found their path towards liberation.
Ernesto Rocha is an organizer, storyteller, transformational coach, and advocate for social, racial, and economic justice. He currently serves as the community organizer for the Clean and Safe Ports Project, a comprehensive campaign of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE). Ernesto was born in Tepatitlán, Jalisco, Mexico and immigrated to the United States in 1996 at the age of eight. Ernesto was the first in his family to graduate from high school and attend college where he graduated from UCLA with a dual bachelor degree in Political Science and Chicana/o Studies. While at UCLA, Ernesto advocated for the undocumented immigrant-student population by implementing strategic education and media campaigns to build support for both the California and Federal DREAM Acts. Ernesto’s eleven years of organizing experience include working and advocating for immigrant rights and low-wage workers in various industries, including nursing homes and port trucking.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Hello! I was the interpreter for your talk today at El Camino College! Thank you for everything you shared! I really enjoyed hearing from you!!! I also graduated from UCLA :) Thanks again!!!
Great job again, Pamela! He was great 👍
Your English is absolutely phenomenal Ernesto! You inspire me to work on polishing my own speaking skills after 20 years there or therabouts of living abroad
Ernesto, your talk is very inspirational, and you deserve to be recognize for your efforts and merit. I admire your courage to bring awareness about the struggles that undocumented immigrants face in the U.S. Thank you and bravo for making this world a better place with your activism!!!! Abrazos!
It hurts
beautiful beautiful boy thank you for sharing your story. Gracias!
How is Ernesto working as a community organizer without status? Is he pursuing a path to citizenship? It would certainly harm him to be working illegally.
he likely has DACA status.
thank you for giving us a nice speech. I find energy from your speech. Thanks a lot!
Excellent TED Talk Ernesto! I used it for my High School Ethnic Studies class. Fit perfectly for the unit of study on Identity and Stereotypes. BRAVO!
It moves me to tears. Very brave and deep inspirational speech!
Ted, muchas gracias por compartir tu historia, yo también fui ese niño... Y no sabes la dirección que le diste a mi vida en este momento, acabo de reconectar con ese niño que llegó aquí y vuelvo a ver la dirección en mi vida. Gracias! Y sigue adelante!
Beautiful. Thank you
Why not go back to your country and help your fellow citizens?
Because His Peoples are here also,.......See, His Peoples are Not Defined by a Border because They were here before a Border,.......!
why dont you join him in the mission too?
@@tboned70 His people are losers, bro - toilet cleaners, strawberry pickers, car washers
@@tboned70YEAH BUT THIS COUNTRY IS RICH BECAUSE OF ANGLOS NOT MEXICANS THATS WHY MEXICO IS POVERTY
@@MuhammadSalman-rj9dithis country is rich because they STOLE land from Mexico
I met him
Nadia Marin Who cares? 🤷🤷🤷🤷
james goff I do. And I’m guessing you too since you took the time to leave a comment.
First comment! Great episode.
Gracias por compartir nuestra historia. 🌟
Wow. All I can say is.. Thank you! This is what I needed!!! Hope to meet you one day.
Thank you for a great ted talk.
Wonderful job E!!!
The problem is that it is easier to be an undocumented immigrant over a documented immigrant. It’s unfortunate for people that have put their best efforts into immigrating to the US legally. Immigration and it’s procedures are a nightmare but the perspective of immigrants who did it the legal way is unheard. Because of illegal immigration it has become harder and harder to do it the right way. There is a small percentage of talented people that make it through the struggles of immigration to the US legally, they have spend a fortune on education, legal fees and immigration fees to leave their families behind just to be turned away after graduating. There’s tolerance for undocumented immigrants but none for the ones that have done right by the US legal system. So what’s fair?
English Girl First of all, we don’t get benefits. We don’t get welfare, we don’t get healthcare, we don’t get financial aid. And to further inform you we are taxpayers just like you. We contribute to 8% of taxes each year- compared to 5% from billionaires. You have no idea, what it’s like to be from Latin America. You come from a well developed country in which you decided to immigrate to the US. Dreamers-which is what we’re called because yes we’re not our status fyi-are people who have GROWN UP unlike you, in America. Our culture, customs, way of life is American. We contribute economically to infrastructure and heavy work. I don’t see you working in the grape fields- and you probably won’t. Just like you wanted the American Dream, we wanted it too.
English Girl Get educated- and don’t get so pissed and critical over things that aren’t accurate.
@@perlahurtadoflores2669 nothing wrong with wanting to dream. You can change the country you are from. The US had fought two wars when we were unhappy with our country the revolutionary and civil war. The real answer is not running it is fighting back. Also go after the smugglers they are the problem. We are a nation of laws they should be followed.
Angela Bolin The US is home because we contribute to it everyday. Furthermore, it is so easy to say “fix it in your own country,” corruption and crime is not the same as in the US. We come to seek a better opportunity- and we don’t just take things, we contribute back to the economy of this great nation. Yes this is a nation of laws- which other than entering illegally in search for work and opportunity, we follow the law regardless of what the media and Donald trump say. Illegal immigrants contribute to far less crime than any other person in America- especially natural born white citizens. And if you wanna talk about running away- colonials ran away from Britain in search of a better life in America.
Angela Bolin And the reasons for fighting in the revolutionary war was to flee from Britain. The Civil War was to end slavery which affected primarily blacks and to regroup the union again- it is not the same.